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From: chapman@parc.xerox.com (Brent Chapman)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Bug report: in "inc", the '-silent' and '-audit' switches clash
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Date: 10 Dec 89 08:20:13 GMT
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My .mh_profile includes "-audit inc.audit" as part of my default
switches for the MH 6.6 "inc" command.  Normally, this works just fine;
the same summary that "inc" prints on my screen as it processes my
mailbox is appended to my "inc.audit" file, along with a timestamp to
tell me when the "inc" was done.

The "-silent" switch tells "inc" NOT to show me a line for each message
as it processes my mailbox; this is all well and good.  The "-silent"
switch ALSO apparently suppresses the output to my audit file, though;
this is _NOT_ well and good, and I consider it to be a bug in the "inc"
command.  It's not that serious a problem, and I don't have time to dig
through the MH sources right now to fix it (and I do mean DIG through
the sources; I've gone mucking around in MH sources before, so I know
what I'm in for, and I'm not anxious to do it again), but I wanted to
bring it to everyone's attention in case it _is_ a serious problem for
somebody else.

I really like the "-audit" feature, and am eagerly waiting for some
enterprising person to add it to the rest of the commands, like "forw",
"repl", and "refile"....  [Hint, hint!  :-]


-Brent
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Brent Chapman                                   Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
UNIX Operations Manager                         3333 Coyote Hill Road
chapman@parc.xerox.com                          Palo Alto, CA  94304
                                                Phone:  415/494-4316